Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Today you were introduced with an example of a poem which had been analyzed. While it is not perfect (we made a number of changes) the steps are clearly represented. One of the discussions we had was about the speaker of a poem. I stress again here that the speaker of the poem is more than the writer. The speaker in the poem is the "person" who is narrating the story to the audience. You need to think about whose point of view is the poem coming from. The writer is the person who wrote the poem. The speaker is whose point of view it's from.Example:A girl in this class writes a poem from the perspective of her mother.